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I've never understood why teams don't give the Patriots the "Patriots Way" right back at them.

You know who bothers me most about the Patriots? Robert Kraft. That smug bastard walks around like nothing has happened and routinely champions himself as the voice of reason in NFL disputes. There has never been a single moment of public admission or realization of any kind that his organization has done things that set the game and the NFL brand back. The buck stops with him.

Pass short to Watkins on a bubble screen, right side. 8 yards 19 FD

For me, the telling thing will be if we make adjustments and I'm encouraged that we have professional coaches this year. Will we make adjustments at halftime? Will we make adjustments a few games into the season once opposing teams have tape on what we're going to do? The scariest part of the season for me is Game #3 because that's where in previous seasons, the jig's been up.

Eagles by far. Media sees the Madden numbers from the preseason and lose their minds. They ignore that they have players on that team that are talented but made of single pane glass like Bradford, Thurmond, Alonso, Ryans.

Not the first time I've heard the Giants being terrible. Crap OL, lots of injuries (Cruz, JPP) and old players. No linebackers, no safeties.

If you wanted to screw with the opposing team, you could start a different quarterback every week, just like preseason. Or rotate them in and out if one of them isn't having a great game. What is the downside to that? I'm surprised teams don't do this already - there's no rule you have to stick with one quarterback. Even if you have a blue chip like Aaron Rodgers, why expose your best quarterback for entire games if you don't need to?

I'm in a football contest and one of the tie-breaking questions is who selects the worst team in the NFL, record wise. Was wondering who you guys think will be the team with the worst record?

The first rule of arranging fight club with other people's kids - you better have eyes in the back of your head. Nothing makes a parent lose their mind more - and their logic filter - than somebody messing with their children. They don't care. Everybody has that Uncle Steve in their family who may have done some time upstate or who's just back from deployment who happens to have a temper, happens to be ok getting his hands dirty for his family and happens to have a crowbar.

I'd find Detroit interesting. A zombie outbreak in a city that barely has emergency and police services on a non-zombie problem day.

You are a rare person immune to the subtle terror of Sam Neill. Even in Hunt for Red October, where he plays a good guy, you half expect him to sink the submarine. This particular movie has a rare combination of gore, Sam Neill, all of the actors weren't that famous (pre-Matrix Fishburne) so all of them could be killed, and derelict spaceship suspense (akin to 2010, Aliens) where you have no idea what you're walking into.

My vote. I don't know a single person who's seen it who hasn't felt uncomfortable watching it and had nightmares about it.

I'm surprised George Seifert didn't crack the Top 10. Or a Losman/Edwards debate. What was the deal about that 2008 MNF game with the Browns?

I was curious as to whether anyone could tell me the top three topics that had the most posts, all time on the football only board? (Not counting Off the Wall, the politics board) I'd suspect the days leading up to Mario would be a candidate, but I wonder which one thread in the history of the board reigns supreme?

Good start but I'm officially bored with Los Angeles as a setting for shows. Too many years of the Terminator, earthquakes, aliens, and cop shows set there.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-28/clinton-camp-saying-it-already-secured-one-fifth-the-delegates-needed-for-nomination Joe Biden and/or Bernie Sanders has some work to do. For nomination purposes, all those cable news polls don't matter.

That's one snazzy windbreaker. Is the #ABC referring to "Always Be Closing"?

There is a correlation with the amount of weight - between muscle and gear. The private sector defense contractors spend a lot of resources in engineering gear that reduces the load on a soldier's body, namely the tendons and ligaments. I don't know how much all the NFL gear weighs on game day, but I bet it's substantial from helmet to shoe. No more artificial turf fields. That'd be a good idea. I also don't think the NFL promotes rest as much as they should. Most NFL players train year round and rather intensively - the body can only take so much. I think some of these injuries are due to over-training.

The team has performed well in the first two weeks of the season until opposing teams get tape on them. Perhaps Rex will approach the regular season like preseason - different starting quarterback *every* game. It isn't a half bad idea if you have three decent quarterbacks and on any given Sunday, one of them exploits a weakness in the defense better than the others.

Mental health - THE issue of our time. Someday, we'll start paying attention to it in the workplace.

As a Big Sky alum, I think he's comfortable kicking in the cold and on artificial turf, two constants if you play ball in that conference. Doesn't like kicking in the heat. Buffalo is probably as ideal as it gets for him.

I feel pretty good about the quarterbacks. I think TT and EJ played very well. I think the whole EJ playing with the 2nd teamers is a deliberate confidence building exercise by the coaching staff. I don't think he's going anywhere. If I'm the Browns, that game couldn't have inspired much confidence. McCown took some serious shots and had two INTs against a vanilla defense.

Along with the OP, I'm shopping the truck segment now. I've test driven all of them - Colorados, Tacomas, Frontiers, Silverados, Sierras, F-150s, Rams, Titans, Tundras, Avalanches. I prefer a Crew Cab so they've all been the Crew Cab versions. In regards to the mid-size - I think the Colorado is overpriced and there aren't a lot of rebates. For what you'll pay, and as long as you'd be ok with a Silverado, just get a Silverado. I'm not a fan of used Colorados with that wonky I5 engine. Dealers are discounting 2015 Tacomas ahead of the new 2016s good but they are misers with the used products. Frontiers are pretty good value because they are discounting heavy before their 2016s as well. You'll get them for less than a Tacoma but they are plagued by frame rust issues like the Silverados. You have to watch out for those. The big game change will be if the US stops enforcing the chicken tax on foreign made trucks. If that happens, you'd see the Volkswagen Amarok over here probably, along with the new Ford Ranger. It's been rumored for years too that Jeep may bring a Comanche type truck back to the market.

I think some guys are better assistant coaches than they are head coaches. Wouldn't shock me to see Marrone be one of those guys. Marrone and Hackett, just like Jauron and Schoenert before them, will look like geniuses Weeks 1 and 2. Once teams have tape, their schemes are quickly figured out and whether it's hubris or confidence you pick - they will not change the plan and the results will suffer. So yeah, I'm sure things look good in Jags camp. They looked good in Bills camp. Let's talk Week 3.

I wouldn't glean much from a study of German parents. German life is country club compared to life in the US. Germans work far less hours, have a lot more vacation and leisure time. Bottom line - they are a bit spoiled so when it comes to the work of raising a child - it's like Mission Impossible to the them. As the saying goes, Europeans work to live and Americans live to work.